An often-heard question in any discussion of Machine Learning (ML) tools is maybe most obvious one: “So, how can we use them?”

The answer depends on the industry, but we think there are especially useful (and interesting) applications for the financial services sector. These consumers have historically been open to the ML concept but haven’t been quick to jump on some potential solutions to common problems.

Let’s look at risk management at the trading desk, for example. If you want to mitigate risk, you need to be able to identify it in advance—say, to insure your traders aren’t conducting out-of-market transactions or placing fictitious orders. The latest issue of the New Machinist Journal by Dr. Jimmie Lenz (available by clicking here) explains how. Trade Desk Surveillance is just one way that Machine Learning tools can help monitor a variety of activities that can cause grief for those tasked with risk management.

Would you like to read more about the possibilities ML can bring to financial services process settings? Download “Real Time Learning: A Better Approach to Trader Surveillance,” along with other issues of the New Machinist Journal, by visiting www.frgrisk.com/resources.